Timeline is a search tool that brings up a timeline of events related to your subject. The application organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
Try a search on a current event or person, then on a historical one.
Google Lit Trips maps out locations within literature. Students can track movement within a story, with photographs or videos to add understanding. Google Earth is needed to view Lit Trips, but this video allows you to see a Lit Trip without downloading it. In order to use it properly, you will need to have GoogleEarth installed on your computer. You can download it here and learn more about how to use it from Ian Jukes Digital Diet e-book.
The availability of Lit Trips is limited, but growing.
A Family Apart-Joan Lowery Nixon
Abuela-Arthur Dorros
Big Anthony: His Story-Tomie dePaola
Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy
Brothers in Hope: Lost Boys of Sudan- Mary Williams
Buddenbrooks-Thomas Mann
By the Great Horn Spoon-Sid Fleishman
Candide-Voltaire
Expedition Literature: Into the Wild-Jon Krakauer
Fever 1793-Laurie Halse Anderson
Fifteen Poets
Hana’s Suitcase-Karen Levine
Macbeth-William Shakespeare
Make Way for Ducklings-Robert McClosky
Marching for Freedom-Elizabeth Partridge
My Brother Sam is Dead-James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Night-Elie Wiesel
Paddle-to-the-Seas-Clancy Holling
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
Possum Magic-Mem Fox
Remote Man-Elizabeth Honey
Seaman-Gail Karwoski
The Aeneid-Virgil
The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices in Verse-Patrick J. Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
The Hyakunin Isshu One Hundred Poets in One Hundred Poems
The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson-Mary Rowlandson
The Odyssey-Homer
The Road-Cormac McCarthy
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-Ann Bashares
The Slave Dancer-Paula Fox
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-Christopher Paul Curtis
Timeline is a search tool that brings up a timeline of events related to your subject. The application organizes search results chronologically. It allows users to view news and other data sources on a browsable, graphical timeline. Available data sources include recent and historical news, scanned newspapers and magazines, blog posts, sports scores, and information about various types of media, like music albums and movies.
Try a search on a current event or person, then on a historical one.
Google Lit Trips maps out locations within literature. Students can track movement within a story, with photographs or videos to add understanding. Google Earth is needed to view Lit Trips, but this video allows you to see a Lit Trip without downloading it. In order to use it properly, you will need to have GoogleEarth installed on your computer. You can download it here and learn more about how to use it from Ian Jukes Digital Diet e-book.
The availability of Lit Trips is limited, but growing.
A Family Apart-Joan Lowery Nixon
Abuela-Arthur Dorros
Big Anthony: His Story-Tomie dePaola
Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy
Brothers in Hope: Lost Boys of Sudan- Mary Williams
Buddenbrooks-Thomas Mann
By the Great Horn Spoon-Sid Fleishman
Candide-Voltaire
Expedition Literature: Into the Wild-Jon Krakauer
Fever 1793-Laurie Halse Anderson
Fifteen Poets
Hana’s Suitcase-Karen Levine
Macbeth-William Shakespeare
Make Way for Ducklings-Robert McClosky
Marching for Freedom-Elizabeth Partridge
My Brother Sam is Dead-James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Night-Elie Wiesel
Paddle-to-the-Seas-Clancy Holling
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce
Possum Magic-Mem Fox
Remote Man-Elizabeth Honey
Seaman-Gail Karwoski
The Aeneid-Virgil
The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices in Verse-Patrick J. Lewis
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
The Hyakunin Isshu One Hundred Poets in One Hundred Poems
The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson-Mary Rowlandson
The Odyssey-Homer
The Road-Cormac McCarthy
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants-Ann Bashares
The Slave Dancer-Paula Fox
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-Christopher Paul Curtis
The Yellow Ballon-Charlotte Dematons
Traveling with P.G. Wodehouse
Underground to Canada-Barbara Smucker
Walk Two Moons-Sharon Creech
We All Went on Safari-Laurie Krebs
Basics of Viewing a Google Lit Trip